One of the best - and most fun -
shooters released all year.
Not exact matches
Even fourteen
years after its first
release fast and variable space action Star Fox 64 remains one of the best rail
shooters and the 3rd dimension fortunately doesn't ruin its original playability.
The battle royale
shooter is currently in Open Beta with a full
release scheduled for later this
year.
Released for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One back on September 6, the sci - fi
shooter also became the third best - selling title of the last 12 months, which also includes last
year's Battlefield 1 and CoD: Infinite Warfare.
While these mentioned above were undoubtedly the best
shooter games
released this
year, there are at least a few more worth pointing out to genre fans.
Ten
years ago today, Irrational Games» sci - fi first - person
shooter BioShock was
released, and its story of a ruined...
While not sequential in their development (Q - Games
released Eden between the two), the expert shift from focused tower defense to dual - stick
shooter with a heavy reliance on liquid physics is pulled off more masterfully then many AAA developers handle the same game
year over
year.
Darkwatch is one of the more unique first person
shooters to be
released this
year and I must say if you appreciate originality and don't mind that the single player is a bit short, than you're going to enjoy Darkwatch.
Hybrid, the third - person online
shooter set to
release on Xbox Live Arcade this
year, will have a public beta with signups beginning shortly after the end of GDC, which is next week.
With 2017 still fresh in our collective memory, it's time to circle back and take a look at the best
shooter games
released in the
year that just went by.
From the time I spent with it, hands - on, at E3 this
year, I'm wholly confident the third - person
shooter, straight from the mind of David Gaffe, is a game that should have been
released years and
years ago.
Next
year will bring no fewer than four pirate games: the official
release of Steam Early Access naval first - person
shooter Blackwake; Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion; and the two heavy hitters, Sea of Thieves and Skull & Bones.
Recently funded on Kickstarter earlier this
year, viTekiM has announced a February
release date for the upcoming
shooter R - COIL.
Today, Bethesda and MachineGames announced that last
year's award winning
shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus will be
released on the Nintendo...
Hucast's next Dreamcast
release is the vertical - scrolling
shooter Ghost Blade and after a serious set - back when the previous programmer left the project, the game is now set for a
release this
year on September the 17th.
«Fruitvale Station» is based on an actual event, one that resulted in the shooting death of a twenty - two
year old African - American living just outside San Francisco, one in which the
shooter, a cop, was convicted only of involuntary manslaughter and
released after eleven months.
Wolfenstein II is one of the best first - person
shooter games
released this
year, although it has some flaws.
Cave Story, the delightful
shooter - platformer
released via WiiWare early this
year, looks like it will hit another Nintendo platform soon.
Wolfenstein II is one of the best first - person
shooter games
released this
year, albeit with some flaws.
Square Enix
released a new trailer for Left Alive, the company's recently revealed survival action
shooter, at Tokyo Game Show today that offers a glimpse of gameplay from next
year's title.
Guerrilla Games» first game would
release one
year after the sale, and was a third - person
shooter called Shellshock: Nam» 67.
Almost four
years after the Xbox One game's
release in 2014, Microsoft's continues to update and improve the
shooter package.
A2M's acrobatic
shooter WET has been in
release date limbo since the great Activision - Blizzard merger left it publisher-less, but with Bethesda Softworks officially taking over distribution duties, gamers can look forward to shooting and slashing their way through bewildered henchmen before the
year is out.
With 2017 still fresh in our collective memory, it's time to circle back and take a look at the best
shooter games
released in the
year that just went by.
Dark Void is the latest title to be scratched from this fall's game
release calendar, with Capcom announcing that the jet - pack powered
shooter will be delayed until the new
year.
Where Declassifed sets itself apart from a lot of the other
shooters is in its desire to implement some of the tactical play of its strategy cousin XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the game which captured the hearts and minds of many players when it was
released last
year.
To mark the beginning of this
year's QuakeCon, the team behind Doom pulled a fast one on their loving fans and
released the first content pack, entitled Unto the Evil, a day early, whilst simultaneously
releasing a trailer to show off the additions to their fiendishly frenetic first person
shooter.
Having already
released on PC and Playstation 4 on April 5th last
year, developer Dodge Roll's top down, arcade style
shooter / dungeon crawler will be available to play on Xbox One exactly one
year later and is also said to be
releasing on Nintendo Switch at a later date.
Last
year, Milkstone Studios
released a game called Ziggurat which provided a fun take on the first person
shooter genre by mixing in elements of a roguelike.
This is a busy
year for Ubisoft, the developer just
released its most anticipated open - world hacking video game Watch Dogs, and it has to manage a few more upcoming AAA games, one of which is a third - person tactical
shooter called Tom Clancy's The Division.
Dead Alliance is a first person
shooter with zombie elements, it was originally named Moving Hazard and in early access on Steam for some time before being taken down and put back up almost a
year later as a full
release named Dead Alliance.
Originally
released last
year, Immortal Redneck is a procedural generated first - person
shooter that blends «rednecks» and ancient Egypt.
Tripwire Interactive and Antimatter games have
released a new update pack for their World War II - era first person
shooter and 2011 First - Person Shooter of the Year (PC Gamer), Red Orchestra 2 and it's expansion, Rising
shooter and 2011 First - Person
Shooter of the Year (PC Gamer), Red Orchestra 2 and it's expansion, Rising
Shooter of the
Year (PC Gamer), Red Orchestra 2 and it's expansion, Rising Storm.
After
years of hype and monumental buildup, Bungie's long awaited MMO
shooter Destiny has finally been
released, pitting players around the world against the growing forces of darkness in a rich and vast sci - fi - influenced universe.
Destiny, a multiplayer online first person
shooter that will
release later this
year, held its open beta this past weekend.
Vertex Pop's
shooter was
released last
year on PS4, now Vita players get a chance to sample this crazy, intense
shooter.
Including the recently
released PixelJunk Nom Nom Galaxy and last
year's PixelJunk
Shooter Ultimate, both available on PSN for individual purchase, PlayStation 4 is now the destination for PixelJunk games!
Wolfenstein II is one of the best first - person
shooter games
released this
year, albeit with some flaws.
Brink is a highly anticipated First - Person
Shooter from Splash Damage and is due for
release later this
year.
Two of the greatest multiplayer First Person
Shooters released not just in the same
year but within the same month, meaning that you had to choose between either space guns or realistic guns.
Then Tyler made what she called a «hard right turn» into game land and introduced one of this
year's most anticipated
releases: Ghost Recon Wildlands, an open - world
shooter game, in which players take on a Bolivian drug cartel.
Battleborn originally
released in May of 2016, the same month and
year as popular hero
shooter Overwatch, which in direct comparison already has tens of millions of players compared to Battleborn's player base which is somewhere in the low...
During this time, they
released two games: the browser 3D MMOG MilMo, which was operated for two and half
years, and Tuff Tanks, an artillery
shooter MOG for the iPad.
With everything unlocked, we also got to glimpse at the variety of equipment players will be able to earn, which should be familiar to any player of just about any multiplayer
shooter that's
released in the last two
years.
Call of Duty World War 2 is a first - person
shooter video game that
released on Nov 3 this
year.
Who would have thought that Psyonix, the people who
released the awesome Star Fox-esque on - rails
shooter ARC Squadron on iOS more than five
years ago, would go on to create one of the most popular multiplayer games in the world.
Other Blizzard games include the StarCraft franchise, which was once the world's biggest esport, Overwatch, a hugely popular
shooter released last
year, the Diablo franchise, which includes some of the most well - loved action RPG games ever, and Hearthstone, a massively profitable online card game.
The developer uses the Unreal Engine instead, a telling sign of its intention to ape many, many
shooters released over the last few
years.
The open - world
shooter Far Cry 5's launch has now been pushed back by a month to 27th March 2018, and a currently unannounced title previously scheduled for a 2018 - 19 fiscal
year release is now reassigned to the following financial
year.
After being hinted at since 2012, and even having a
release teased for this
year, it seems that the wonderfully over-the-top
shooter Serious Sam 3: BFE is finally hitting PSN this week.